TWO TREKKERS MISSING IN VALLEY DECLARED DEAD

SRINAGAR: Two trekkers, who went missing after falling into a crevice at the Pahalgam hill resort in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir, have died, officials said on Saturday. A group of trekkers had gone to the Kolahai glacier at Pahalgam in the south Kashmir district and on their way back, two fell into the crevice after rock-fall, they added. Authorities said the two trekkers — a junior scale Kashmir Administrative Services officer Naveed Jeelani and Adil Shah of the Alpine group — had gone missing after the incident.

Soldier shoots himself dead with service rifle in Samba

JAMMU: An army personnel allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle inside a camp in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Saturday. Naik Jasvir Singh, 34, posted with the Punjab regiment, shot himself with his service rifle while on sentry duty at Maheshwar camp here on Friday, a police official said. He added that his colleagues rushed to the scene on hearing the gunshot and evacuated him to a nearby medical facility where he was declared dead on arrival.

One more in SIT custody in Lankesh murder case

BENGALURU: The Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the killing of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh, has taken into custody one more person in connection with the case. Sources in the SIT said Sudhanwa Gondhalekar, who was arrested from Pune by the Maharashtra ATS in August in connection with the seizure of a huge cache of explo-